I gather there is a lot of skepticism about Microsoft's announcement.
I was intrigued by the marketing opportunity to show potential sponsors
of deployments that they can run Sugar on their laptop as a Microsoft
program. As I understood the announcement, it should be possible to set
up a normal Windows 'shortcut' that would run Sugar directly from an
installed Ubuntu version.
I suppose at some level of abstraction, Sugar could be viewed as a gtk-3
app.
What would be interesting is for someone to make a version of Sugar that
installs and runs as a Windows program as WUBI used to do for Ubuntu.
Tony
On 04/16/2016 10:12 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
A more direct way to support Windows would be to use the Windows port
of the GTK toolkit.
This has been done before:
https://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2014/01/29/developing-gtk-3-apps-with-python-on-windows/
A GTK expert might be able to point us to the current preferred approach.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com
<mailto:sdaly...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Tony Anderson
<tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote:
This new capability is intended to eliminate the need for cygwin
No doubt MS likes any initiative against Red Hat. I think they
want to simplify server administration in a mixed-OS environment
from a Windows console (ssh, rsync and the like) which is why
default (and apparently only) permission profile is root.
By the way MS has a long history of distributing a Unix-compatible
command line. They purchased Interix in 1999 which later became
Windows Services for Unix, and there has been support for it
until... Windows 10. The funny part is, last time I checked about
8 years ago, there was GNU software in the package yet MS did not
provide the corresponding source code, in violation of the license.
My default shell in Cygwin is GNU bash v4.3 and in my day job it's
a boon to inherit Windows drive mappings at the command line.
Sean
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